I'm going to do a clean install. It's my netbook, so not much to lose. Tomorrow. And you can change back to right hand by changing theme. On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 19:39 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Simon O'Riordan <voluntar...@btopenworld.com> [2010-05-04 02:55]: > > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:30 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote: > > > 1)Takes longer to boot up > > > 2)Boot up sequence looks like a chinese-made plastic toy. Crap. > > > 3)Uninstalls opencv, cannot reinstall. My vision demos no longer work. > > > 4)Breaks video. Cheese doesn't work. > > > 5)Laptop sound issues not improved. > > > 6)Rhythmbox opens on 'UbuntuOne' page. > > > 7)Left-handed controls installed by default. > > > 8)Menus difficult to use.(Split buttons on right). > > > Why why why oh why? What is 10.04 for? To keep Vista company? To join > > > the Microsoft World Order by being lousy? > > > No thanks. > > > When they come for my desktop I'll say "Nyet!" > > > > > Oh, and it uninstalls Flash. It doesn't seem to be able to reinstall it. > > So you have to put in one of those marvellous amateur-night jobs where > > you have to press a 'play' button and then the Flash animation goes > > round in ever-decreasing circles until it catches itself up and > > disappears up its own arse. > > > > What are they putting in the Canonical canteen tea these days? > ** end quote [Simon O'Riordan] > > On my HP Mini 2133 netbook all went well: > > 1) On mine it is notably quicker. > 2) Given 1) above I've not really seen much of it! I did notice the word > Ubuntu > with some dots underneath, but miss it on most boots!! > 3) Can't comment, not used it. > 4) Cheese is working nicely on my machine. > 5) Not sure as I have any, at one point I thought it vanished once in a while, > but not sure it does now. > 6) Not a big user on my netbook, not overly worried. > 7) I like the new icons, giving the position a chance, not the end of the > world > for me, in spite of 20 years or so of using them on the right! > 8) Lost me here, which menus. > > Personally I'm quite liking it. It also now works with my 3 dongle without > patching :) > > As for flash, I noted that I didn't have flash, but wasn't 100% sure I had it > installed. After a quick look around I installed the package adobe-flashplugin > and everything works smoothly now with Adobe Flash 10. > > Clearly you didn't have a smooth update, for my mileage it would be worth a > bit > of investigation and bug reporting. > > -- > Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 > ====================================================================== > Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: > Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU >
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